Why is money so important?
That was my reoccurring question while watching this last movie, Wall Street . It has also crossed my mind many times.
One unfortunately obvious reason is to live in this world.
I just personally do not like money. I think it can control a person. It breeds inequality and I wish instead of trading money for our goods and services instead we gave something in return. Like trading a perfectly good milking cow for magic beans. What about the good ol' days?
Sometimes I just wonder what this world would be like if ALL money was erased. Used instead to wrap packages. Or have it cleaned and recycled to make clothes or accessories, or bags, or something that people need. I guess I should be careful how I use that word, need, since we have been talking so much about our needs as people in class. Maybe we shall say something that is important to people.
Is money a part of our needs? We have to say yes, because in this day and age we have to earn money to go to the store to purchase the food that is going to feed us when we're hungry. We have to pay the utility bill in order to turn on the faucet and get delicious cold water, whenever we want it (rather than whenever we need it).
Equality: so we are all created equal right? Is this really true if you are born into a filthy rich family or if you are born in some alley and you're living on the streets with your mom? How is that equal? Just think if every single person in the whole world had the same about of money? Just think if every job paid the same salary. What if everyone was really equal in that way? Could that improve our way of life? Would there be less greed for money and more greed for love?
I think then people would actually enjoy going to their job. There was an experiment that tested self-perception of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. This article is attached below. There was a group of college men part of an experiment that were coming in to put together a puzzle. The independent variables were either a blank or a picture puzzle and getting paid or no payment. The results showed that the picture puzzle completed without getting paid was the most enjoyable. So what is happening to us then when we add in that extrinsic variable, money?
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